Another drug raid gone bad

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 20 aug 08

[rellimpank]

Mayor of Maryland town, his dogs dead, still waiting for apology

Cops in Prince George's County, Md., have a proud tradition to maintain. In May, a former county officer was sentenced to 45 years in prison for shooting two furniture delivery men at his home last year, one of them fatally. (He claims they attacked him.)

In June, a suspect jailed in the death of a local police officer was found strangled in his cell. Authorities have no idea how that could have happened.

It's unlikely Mayor Cheye Calvo of Berwyn Heights, Md., was thinking of his county's behaviorally challenged boys in beige when he got home from work three weeks back, saw a package addressed to his wife sitting on the front porch, and brought it inside, putting it on a table.

But he should have been.

[VaBthang4]

And Loserdopian contrarians’ll know doubt uphold their proud tradition of flocking to any anti-cop thread and adding their two cents on the evils of organized and armed law enforcement.

[BlazingArizona]

And Loserdopian contrarians’ll know doubt uphold their proud tradition of flocking to any anti-cop thread and adding their two cents on the evils of organized and armed law enforcement.

Yes, if anyone knows doubt, it's us.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Yeah, “know doubt” anyone who sees a problem with this para-military nonsense practiced by “boys with toys” is, of course, a “loser”.

[bimbo]

Prince George Co. is one of the Bluest-of-the-Blue subdivisions in Maryland ... where Democrats have held power forever, and where the Socialist Ideals of a Police State have matured beyond anything - anywhere - in the rest of the U.S.A.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Too many of these asshat cops get a chance to play “cowboys and civilians” and people (and pets, even) end up dead for no reason whatsoever. That doesn’t make all cops bad, but it sure hurts their image. The leadership has failed repeatedly to rein this in effectively. If we’re to be expected to respect the police, they have to change their ways.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Well stated

[carmelanne]

Hello VaBthang4,

I totally agree that this thread will draw all those in denial of just how we common folks can just be stomped on and justice will be denied. The dog killing stripped pant warriers are still working overtime just so we all can post some dumb stories about how we have been abused and mistreated.

A single episode of “cops” will show just how much misery the kitten stompers must suffer in the course of their public policing duties just to keep the peace and protect folks with dental plans and such.

Now be a good boy and let us complain without you complaining about our complaining.

Thanks you and watch out for those out of control tazer monkies. A colts fan from Indiana

[microgood]

And Loserdopian contrarians’ll know doubt uphold their proud tradition of flocking to any anti-cop thread and adding their two cents on the evils of organized and armed law enforcement.

This is not an anti-cop thread. It is an anti-SWAT Team, anti-no-knock search thread.

Once we get rid of our 90000 SWAT Teams that we do not need, get rid of their military hardware, restore the 4th Amendment in this country, and end the stupid drug war, we will be fine

[unixfox]

If we’re to be expected to respect the police, they have to change their ways.

This kind of stuff made me lose respect long ago.

[jimt]

Your lack of civility is about on a par with your lack of intelligence.

“Cops good !”

“Freedom bad !”

Is it time for the two minute hate yet ?

Moron.

[rellimpank]

---count me as one of them--as far as I am concerned, every SWAT team should be disbanded and the political manipulators who end up on them should be issued a .38 Special with two speedloaders and a set of brogans with soles about an inch thick--then given a five mile beat to cover on foot.

--that would teach them something about "law enforcement"--

[driftdiver]

Well we may flock and we may doubt. But first we’d like a translation.

[Ken H]

Excerpt from Calvo's letter to the Justice Department requesting an investigation:

My mother-in-law was made to lie face-down on the floor in the kitchen, several feet away from where Payton was bleeding to death. Her hands were restrained with plastic handcuffs behind her back. She laid there on the floor with her head held down by police so that she could only see Payton's lifeless body for a considerable period of time.

The officers called for me to walk downstairs backwards with my hands up, which I did. The officers then directed to me to kneel down in the living room by the open front door in my boxer shorts with my hands restrained in plastic cuffs behind my back. I remained in that position for a considerable period of time, watching Payton's body in the other corner of the room and my mother-in-law lying face down in the kitchen.

Georgia was questioned by a detective named Kim, who in the course of her questioning managed to talk on her cell phone and to make a veterinary appointment for her dog. Georgia overheard Kim tell her friend that, this was her first raid and that it was "exciting" because it was the mayor's house.

--http://reason.com/blog/show/128020.html

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Shameful what passes for law enforcement these days.

[Wolfie]

Come on. Every one of these I’ve read about is an isolated incident.

[TLI]

Mr. Calvo insists the couple's two black Labradors were gentle creatures. He says the cops apparently killed them "for sport," gunning down one of them as it was running away. Neighbors say the dogs were so gentle they rarely even barked.

Prince George's County police Chief Melvin High defends the way the raid was conducted, saying the dogs were killed because the officers felt "threatened."

I have heard of few more blatant examples of outright spineless cowardice. What worthless utter scum.

[ozzymandus]

I have “know doubt” that knee-jerk lickspittle cop groupies like you, who defend every atrocity by the police, are not as common as they once were here on FR.

[Niteranger68]

I pray for a painful death for those responsible for this evil deed.

[VaBthang4]

[mysterio]

Loserdopian contrarians’ll know doubt

Save a dog : end the failed war on some drugs.